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The Government Property Agency (the GPA) is launching a PropTech Experience Group for users of the GPA’s flagship property technology products and services.

• Updated: 20 May 2024

Core grants from the DWP’s Access to Work scheme are now available through our online portal.

• Updated: 8 May 2024

The published switchboard number for Bona Vacantia will be temporarily closed on the morning of Wednesday 8th May 2024 for staff training.

• Updated: 2 May 2024

Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has secured a further agreement with telecoms companies to protect vulnerable customers as landlines are upgraded.

• Updated: 11 March 2024

Her work as a senior scientist involves using established imaging techniques and applying them in novel ways to real world situations, to help save lives.

• Updated: 8 March 2024

Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, Saqib Bhatti, gave a speech at the Digital Standards Showcase event in London on 19 February 2024.

• Updated: 22 February 2024

The government is rolling out gigabit networks faster than any other country in the EU.

• Updated: 22 February 2024

The new official GOV.UK logo featuring the chosen crown of His Majesty King Charles III has launched today across the site. 

• Updated: 19 February 2024

The GPA's Head of Technology Allan Gardner discusses using occupancy data insights to make human-led decisions when managing government buildings.

• Updated: 16 February 2024

Most of us take being connected to wifi for granted – at home we simply plug in and go. But when it comes to an office building it’s not always so simple.

• Updated: 12 February 2024

Entries are now open for the 2024 Smarter Working Live Awards, celebrating innovation, collaboration and excellence in workplaces across the public sector.

• Updated: 6 February 2024

The art and science of cleaning ‘dirty data’ and creating visualisations to make it more useful. 

• Updated: 20 December 2023

UK phone providers have agreed a number of new measures to protect vulnerable customers as phone lines are upgraded to a new digital network.

• Updated: 18 December 2023

We often talk about giving civil servants the ability to ‘work from any building’ but do people understand what it means and know what the benefit is for them?

• Updated: 14 December 2023

A new brand, Government Digital and Data, has been launched today to bring together the growing number of digital and tech specialists working in government to improve public services in the long-term.

• Updated: 29 November 2023

The UK has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korea to strengthen government digital services

• Updated: 22 November 2023

Changes will ensure regulator cannot impose an intervention on a firm unless it is proportionate to do so.

• Updated: 15 November 2023

The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in UK actuarial work is growing in importance. The conclusions come from GAD research.

• Updated: 26 October 2023

This tech would enable military personnel to look inside containers, including cars and walls, for hidden weapons or explosives without being near the threat.

• Updated: 3 October 2023

Smith's extensive expertise and leadership in the tech sector will ideally place him to guide the UK's tech aspirations.

• Updated: 14 September 2023